Scientific Publications

Citing Ensembl

If you've used Ensembl in your work, please cite the
most recent overview article and the Ensembl release you retrieved your data from (currently
89).
References for the specific genome assembly can be found on the More information and statistics page for a species (eg human).
For more specialised aspects of our system, further articles are
listed below.

Citing Ensembl Data

Since release 25, all Ensembl releases have been archived as fully
functional sites for about three years. This makes it possible to
accurately cite data being referred to in a paper, even though the
main Ensembl site is being continuously updated (currently release
89 -
May 2017). For more information see the
list of current archives.

The May 2004 issue of Genome Research includes an
Ensembl special covering detailed aspects of the
Ensembl web site, the underlying scalable database system for storing
genome sequence and annotation information, as well as the automated
genome analysis and annotation pipeline.